Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Wouldn’t Sell For $1 Billion, Says Source  —  Update to our post last night about Google/Twitter talks: New sources say that Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, and has had talks with the company about a deal.  Google’s internal valuation, however, would value the company …

Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
No Backbone As Google Bows To Korean Government And Bans Users With Fake Names  —  On April 1 Google started banning South Korean users from posting videos or leaving comments on YouTube unless they use real names.  The move was done to comply with a law that South Korean web […]

Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
Murdoch Wants A Google Rebellion  —  The media mogul says Google is stealing from publishers.  It could be the call to arms that newsrooms need.  —  Rupert Murdoch threw down the gauntlet to Google Thursday, accusing the search giant of poaching content it doesn’t own and urging media outlets to fight […]

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Yahoo Music Soon Expected To Open Up  —  Yahoo Music, which has been shedding services in recent years, is about to add one.  —  The company in coming days plans to announce a feature that will pull together music content from companies like Amazon, iTunes and YouTube in an area […]

Saul Hansell / Bits:
World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 per Home  —  If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here’s a statistic that will make heart race.  —  Or make your blood boil.  Or both.  —  Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world …

Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Wikia Death Proves Google Is Search-Startup Killer  —  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’ open source, human-powered Google killer died a quiet death Tuesday, making Wikia.com the latest object lesson in the futility of trying to unseat Google as the king of search engines.

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Chrome marketshare for March 2009  —  Google Chrome continued its upward marketshare march in March.  I was looking at my browser breakdown tonight.  Here’s what I’ve got from the last 30 days in Google Analytics:  —  Some different browser marketshare numbers:

Joshua Schachter / joshua’s blog:
on url shorteners  —  URL shortening services have been around for a number of years.  Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen.  But it’s 2009 now, and this problem no […]

AppleInsider:
AT&T hurrying massive network update for new iPhone launch  —  AT&T is rushing to rollout a major upgrade to its 3G mobile data service in anticipation of a tenfold increase in network traffic from new iPhone hardware expected to go on sale in June, according to a vendor source.

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
The DiggBar features sponsored links as well  —  In reviewing Digg’s new DiggBar yesterday, I noted that it did feature advertising if you activated certain drop-downs such as a list of other stories from the same source.  That seems like an okay way to make some money, but ultimately …